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    "id": 1034867,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for that opportunity. I want to join my colleague in saying that even as we support this Report and commend the work that has been done by the Committee, without doubt, we need to ask for a little bit more from Committees that table Reports in Parliament. Kenyans look upon us and this House. We speak on behalf of Kenyans. Even when I see Hon. Nyikal shed tears, it is not anything else. It is really a demonstration of where we are as a country. I do not envy any person in Government. I was in the United States of America and I can tell you that this contributed heavily to Trump losing his seat. It is a very difficult time when you are in Government to be in this kind of a situation. The Cabinet Secretary said if you treat the disease normally, it will treat you abnormally. I want to say that for those who treated this as an opportunity of business, a normal business opportunity, it will treat them abnormally. The money you got from here will haunt you to the grave. This is not where you go to make money. You must be a very evil person. How do you look for money when people are dying of this kind of thing? You must be a person beyond rescue. Subjecting us to these kinds of things is really an annoying thing. I know you must supply equipment and do all those things. However, for once, let us have some human feeling. Stop looking for money in this kind of thing. I do not want to say much, but it is really hurting. I have been to my constituency a number of times and people are really passing on because of COVID- 19. The tens of numbers we are told here on a daily basis is a terrible statement of numbers. Perhaps, those are the number of people we are burying in Ndaragwa alone. I know we must be fed on something. I support the Report because it is a good one. They did well, but certainly we need names here in another one or two weeks. That is why we would want to see something being done by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). I certainly would expect PAC and PIC to do much better, in terms of naming the persons who are supposed to be investigated. I do not see any harm when you say the head of this department carries the name of the person into the Report. You will not have said anything else. You will still have just carried the name of the person you want investigated into the Report. That way, as Parliament, we would be helping even the Executive to fight this corruption. The Committee has said that the companies that are involved are 85. Again, if there is somebody who had the mind of constituting a company for purposes of trading with COVID-19 disease or pandemic, let that person forget it. That is already a thing that needs to be known by Kenyans. It is not for us to do anything else, but to know that in the event that we entrust you tomorrow with this kind of an office, you will be taking a human heart to those offices. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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